A one-atom thick graphene balloon, made of carbon graphene is made of carbon), impermeable to gas, has been made and inflated. Graphene is a newly invented material that, it is said, will have important uses in nanotechnology and electronics. The next computer you buy may be based on graphine (if you don’t buy computers too…

Two security researchers have developed a new technique that essentially bypasses all of the memory protection safeguards in the Windows Vista operating system, an advance that many in the security community say will have far-reaching implications not only for Microsoft, but also on how the entire technology industry thinks about attacks. In a presentation at…

….. on this day in 1945. American forces have dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki – the second such attack on Japan in three days. The bomb was dropped by parachute from an American B29 Bomber at 1102 local time. It exploded about 1,625 ft (500m) above the ground and is believed to have completely…

Four Stone Hearth #45 – Caves, Graves and Audio-files Edition is at Remote Central. I and the Bird #81 is at The Marvelous in Nature. The glorious 46th ed of 4SH is at Testimony of the Spade. Aggregator of news about infectious diseases The Carnival of Cinema: Episode 86 – Blogger of the Paradise is…

Technically, Nisbet did not say that. He simply showed a picture of PZ Myers … a rather funny picture of PZ that is not what I would call a glamor shot … and made the statement paraphrased as the title of this post in reference to all atheists who have strong views and who are,…

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According to a source cited by NPR the Ferguson Police Department … violated the Constitution when it policed to raise money and with a racial bias toward African-Americans, according to a law enforcement official familiar with the report. The investigation, the source says, concluded that blacks were disproportionately targeted by the police and the justice […]

“Please Don’t Paint Our Planet Pink!: A Story for Children and their Adults” is a new children’s book by Gregg Kleiner about global warming. The idea is simple. Imagine if you could see CO2? In the book, it is imagined to be pink. The imagining takes the form of a quirky father, one imagines him […]

“You can believe the United States Navy or you can believe the Senator with the snowball.” “You can believe the Pope or you can believe the Senator with the snowball.” “We can believe [great American corporations] or we can believe the Senator with the snowball.” “You can believe every single major American scientific society, or […]